Textile Fragment, "'The Pagan Paradise'circa 1700

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Title: Textile Fragment, "'The Pagan Paradise'
Place Made: Portugal
Date Made: circa 1700
Medium: Silk satin with weft patterning and silk, silk-chenille, and metallic-thread discontinuous supplementary weft patterning (brocade)
Dimensions: with backing: 41 × 18 1/2 in. (104.14 × 46.99 cm) without backing: 35 1/4 × 15 in. (89.54 × 38.1 cm)
Credit Line: Mr. and Mrs. Allan C. Balch Fund
Accession Number: M.55.12.73
Classification: Textiles
Collecting Area: Costume and Textiles
Selected Bibliography: Maeder, Edward et al.. An Elegant Art: Fashion & Fantasy in the Eighteenth Century. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1983.
2000 Years of Silk Weaving: an Exhibition Sponsored by the Los Angeles County Museum in collaboration with the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Arts.. New York: E. Weyhe, 1944.